We are about to move out of a rental property and the landlady has been round today and gone ballistic because the only plant in the garden- a black sambuca-which was there when we moved in-has grown in the 9 months we have lived there, and she is demanding we pay for it to be lopped. It's in no way damaging/impeding the house and is a normal size-it's not outlandish in anyway but has obviously grown since we lived there a regular amount.
If it were my house I wouldn't be lopping it. It looks really nice tbh. It sits in the corner of the yard, which is otherwise paving and horrible Astro turf, not doing anyone any harm.
It doesn't mention the necessity to keep the tree to a certain size in our tenancy agreement.
Are we on the hook for getting it professionally trimmed to her taste (but not for any necessity) , or should she just accept that if she plants something that has the potential to grow, then that's what it will do?
I haven't gone back to her yet, (and my opinion might be coloured by how needlessly arsey she was-we aren't doing a flit-we have another month on our lease and time to do any works that are needed/clean etc) but I can't work out if it's reasonable to ask us to do this or if she's trying it on a bit?